Post by JohnnyO on Jan 27, 2016 1:07:44 GMT -5

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Post by JohnnyO on Jan 27, 2016 1:20:51 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by kacyds on Jan 31, 2016 9:30:06 GMT -5

Beautiful stamp, I always loved beetles and have found many types around the house. As a Horticulturist, I took several Entomology classes in college and I appreciate insect more because of that. Its amazing how many different insects there are, just around the house.

Post by JohnnyO on Feb 2, 2016 1:40:42 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by JohnnyO on Feb 2, 2016 1:41:03 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by JohnnyO on Feb 2, 2016 1:41:26 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by kacyds on Feb 8, 2016 14:27:35 GMT -5

A set of three stamps were issued on March 26, 1987. The 3 stamps show three different insects when the theme, "Insects Protecting Growing Crops. The one shown is the Sphodromantis, which is a large genus of praying mantises concentrated in Africa.

Post by kacyds on Feb 8, 2016 14:50:03 GMT -5

One of the stamps from the 1992-93 set of insects...

Scott# 3711 - Mayfly

Mayflies are relatively primitive insects and exhibit a number of ancestral traits that were probably present in the first flying insects, such as long tails and wings that do not fold flat over the abdomen. They are aquatic insects whose immature stages (called "naiads" or "nymphs") live in fresh water, where their presence indicates a clean, unpolluted environment.

Post by kacyds on Feb 8, 2016 14:52:46 GMT -5

One more from 1992-93...

Scott# 3713 - Stag Beetle

Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetles. Some species grow up to over 12 cm (4.7 in), but most are about 5 cm (2.0 in). Male stag beetles use their jaws to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites in a manner that parallels the way stags fight over females. Fights may also be over food, such as tree sap and decaying fruits. Despite their often fearsome appearance, they are not normally aggressive to humans.

Post by Butterfly on Mar 30, 2016 7:57:08 GMT -5

Here is a particular species in the metallic wood-boring beetle family.

This species inhabits mostly forested regions of eastern Europe. These beetles and others in the Buprestid family eat foliage, pollen, etc., but the larvae bore into wood. The US has about 700 species. 300 in Texas. Sometimes they are called jewel bugs.

As an aside have you noticed that many stamps such as this one don't really reproduce metallic colors very well? Or when a stamp has a really good metallic color, then the scanned color comes out poorly?

Post by JohnnyO on May 13, 2016 19:28:25 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by JohnnyO on May 13, 2016 19:28:54 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

Post by JohnnyO on May 13, 2016 21:58:02 GMT -5

I collect : Canada, United States, Australia ,France, Hungry, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, New Zealand, Romania, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Italy, Austria, Ireland, British Empire, Poland, Japan, And mostly any where in the world in mint stamps.

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